Reading Comprehension Worksheets

Here are some very basic passages for students in kindergarten. Each passage is accompanied by several simple reading comprehension questions.

This page has free reading comprehension passages for students reading at a first-grade level. Each one includes a page of simple comprehension questions, and many include a vocabulary activity and writing prompt.

Here is a collection of articles and stories written for students at a second-grade reading level. Each worksheet includes questions to help test your students' understanding of the material.

Check out our fiction stories, poems, and nonfiction articles written for students reading at a third-grade level. Each passage is accompanied by reading comprehension questions. Check out the free content or join STW for full access to dozens of reading comps!

Whether you're looking for nonfiction animal articles, biographies on important historical figures, or fun fiction stories, this page has your fourth-grade reading comprehension needs covered.

We have a large collection of fifth-grade fiction passages, nonfiction articles, and poems. Worksheets include reading comprehension questions to test readers' understanding of the text.

Here you can access our wide variety of biographical articles, nonfiction articles, and poems specifically written for sixth graders.

Take a look at our middle school reading comprehension worksheets, designed specifically for those reading at a seventh-grade level or beyond.

Print articles on countless animal species, from aardvarks and armadillos to wombats and zebras. Each article has comprehension questions and a vocab activity.

Here you'll find a selection of biographical reading comprehension passages. Biographies cover historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, George Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Gertrude Ederle, and many, many more.

We have a huge collection of original poems for students at all elementary grade levels.

Small groups of students can perform these short readers' theater scripts in the classroom.

On this page you'll find a large selection of phonics-based mini-books for young readers.

This page has handy printables such as book report forms, literature circle roles, book bingo, and other reading worksheets.

These short passages are written specially for students at a first grade level. The passages and questions fit on one page.

This page has some very short reading comprehension passages at a 2nd grade level. The passages and questions all fit on a single page.

These third grade reading passages are very short. Read the paragraph(s) and answer the questions.

These reading comprehension passages are only a few paragraphs each. Read them and answer the questions that follow.

Go to this page to see our collection of short reading comprehension passages for 5th graders.

Here is a complete listing of the English Language Arts content on this site.

This is a complete list of the phonics worksheets available on Super Teacher Worksheets.

This section has alphabet activities, phonics worksheets, basic sentence building activities, and more.

Reading comprehension is a key aspect of English Language Arts (ELA) instruction from elementary school to middle school and beyond. It encompasses the skills used to understand and engage with texts that go beyond simply decoding the words on a page. Through targeted reading comprehension practice, students expand their vocabulary, get better at identifying main ideas and supporting details, and learn to interpret and analyze information. They also improve their abilities to make inferences and draw conclusions, which are essential components of critical thinking in all content areas. As the grades progress, these skills become increasingly complex, eventually enabling students to tackle challenging literature like Shakespeare, dense informational texts, and even technical documents in various subjects.

The importance of reading comprehension goes beyond academic achievement; it is vital for everyday life and future success. Whether reading a storybook, following instructions for a science experiment, analyzing a historical document, or skimming a news article, understanding what one reads is essential for acquiring and applying knowledge. Strong reading comprehension skills enable students to become independent learners, confident in their ability to extract and evaluate information from various sources. They also lay the groundwork for effective communication, as they help students understand different perspectives and convey their own thoughts clearly.

Teachers use a variety of classroom methods to help students improve their reading comprehension. Small-group guided reading sessions can be used to focus on specific comprehension strategies, such as summarizing, questioning, and predicting. Graphic organizers like story maps and Venn diagrams help students visualize relationships between the ideas in a text. Read-aloud activities, discussion groups, and paired reading exercises further engage students and encourage active participation. Teachers may also use reading comprehension worksheets, quizzes, and digital tools that adapt to students' individual reading levels. Super Teacher Worksheets offers a collection of printable worksheets, passages with paired comprehension questions, and other supplementary practice materials that help students hone these crucial skills.